Believing that You Have a Purpose
What are we here for? Where are we going? What's the point of it all?
What little things we are, how weak and how wretched! Humanity makes for such a pathetic creation.
We all are as humble people are: alone, naked, and revealed, exposed to love and to the light.
If I cannot be other than"me" them "me" is a prison: How can I be free?
How do you discover your real purpose in life? I’m not talking about your job, your daily responsibilities, or even your long-term goals.
I mean the real reason why you’re here at all — the very reason you exist.
Perhaps you’re a rather nihilistic person who doesn’t believe you have a purpose and that life has no meaning. Doesn’t matter.
Not believing that you have a purpose won’t prevent you from discovering it, just as a lack of belief in gravity won’t prevent you from tripping.
I believe every person is here for a definite purpose.
Each person is special and valuable; that refers to me, you, your family, friends, in fact everybody!
There is a loving plan for each of our lives here on earth and there is no such thing as coincidence.
Whether you call it fate or destiny, I don't believe that anything in life happens by chance and that every aspect of our lives points to something deeper.
Man is an animal destined to die; an animal aware of his mortality; an animal with urges rather than instincts, passions rather than reason, fantasies rather than thoughts, anger rather than wisdom.
There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death.
Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.
Our lives are full of contradictions. They are often sad, little, comic... That’s why they are often a target for our own sarcasm and humour.
Life is just one damned thing after another i.e. The problem of how to pay the bills, the problems of marriage and career and so on. Life problems are those that arise in our day to day lives that demand attention and simply will not go away until they are solved. These are the issues of life, the pressing matters, the things we find to be a problem in our lives He!He!He! (Men deal with life, as children with their play,
Who first misuse, then cast their toys away).
Why is there something rather than nothing? We do not know.
We will never know. Why?
To what purpose? We do not know whether there is a purpose.
But if it is true that nothing is born of nothing, the very existence of something –
the world, the universe – would seem to imply that there has always been something:
that being is eternal, uncreated, perhaps creator, and this is what some people call God.
André Comte-Sponville, French philosopher,
When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity that lies before and after it,
when I consider the little space I fill and I see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant,
and which know me not, I rest frightened, and astonished, for there is no reason why I should be here rather than there.
Why now rather than then? Who has put me here?
By whose order and direction have this place and time have been ascribed to me? words of Pascal, in the seventeenth century.
Love gives meaning to our lives – as do friendship, or art or faith in God. These are factors of true happiness, of inner peace, of feelings of harmony, allowing meaning to our existence.
